Grading Policy

Grades: Your grade will be based on daily homework and lab activities, two projects, quizzes, three mid-term exams, a gateway exam and the final examination. In computing the final course grade, the following weights apply:

Reading Assignments: Students are expected to read sections in the text as they are covered. Students are held responsible for all assigned material in the text, even if the assigned material is not covered in class.

Homework Assignments: As with most math classes, student learning through the work of problems is the most important aspect of this course. Suggested problems will be listed for each textbook section covered in this course; it is expected that the student will work every problem on this list. Homework assignments will typically consist of a subset of the suggested problems. Homework will include hand-written computations and explanations, as well as computer exercises. Your homework should be legible, with problem number and final answer clearly indicated. For assignments that involve writing, complete sentences are expected. Your lowest homework score will be dropped in the computation of a final grade.

Homework Policies:

1. Homework is due at the start of class on the assigned due date. Late homework will not be accepted. If you know that you will be missing class for some reason, you should turn in assignments beforehand or have someone turn it in for you. Extensions may be granted under extenuating circumstances, but these should be discussed with me in advance.
2. You may discuss homework problems with others (including, but not limited to, your classmates) but you should independently work and write-up the final submitted solution.
3. Assignments must be written neatly in pencil or ink (blue or black). Messy work that is difficult to read may receive no credit.
4. Homework will be collected on a regular basis, though not all assignments will be collected. Collected assignments will be evaluated for neatness, completeness and/or correctness. Solution sets will be made available for assignments that are not evaluated for correctness.

Quizzes: Quizzes will be given in this course. They will typically be announced one class period in advance, but the instructor may give a pop quiz at any time in this course. No makeup quizzes will be given. Quizzes will be reflective of examples done in class and homework problems. The lowest quiz grade will be dropped.

Projects: Two lab projects this semester will require submission of a mathematical paper. The process of writing a paper has two major components: the first is to work out the mathematical details of the problem you were assigned and the second is to make sense of those mathematical details and organize them in a coherent narrative. The paper may very well include symbols, computation and graphs; these will need to be accompanied by verbal explanations of the mathematical ideas. You will be expected to write clearly and coherently using correct mathematical and English grammar. You are encouraged to work in pairs on these projects. When working in pairs, both students must be involved in all aspects of the work. There will be one submission per pair; both collaborators will receive the same grade on the project. Mathematical papers will be due 2 weeks from the day they are assigned.

Exams: Three mid-term exams will be given during the semester. You will be notified of the date of an exam at least one week in advance. Make-up exams will be administered only in the presence of an excused absence or prior approval from the instructor. Exams will be closed book and closed notes examinations unless otherwise specified by the professor.

The Gateway Exam: The integration gateway exam is a purely computational exam, designed to make sure that you are obtaining the analytical (grammatical) skills required to do calculus. The gateway exam will be given after we have covered the essential rules of integration, and will consist of five problems that test your ability to apply these rules correctly. To pass the gateway exam, you must present flawless solutions to at least four of the five problems, allowing only for minor errors on the fifth problem. Since perfect solutions are required, a reasonable number of retakes of the gateway exam are permitted according to the following guidelines.

1. Retakes will be of a similar format to the first Gateway Exam but consist of different problems.
2. A student may take no more than 2 retakes per week and may take at most 1 retake in any given day. No student may retake the Gateway Exam after 5PM on the last day of classes.
3. A student who presents flawless solutions to all problems on his/her first attempt will receive 120 points out of 100 on the exam (or an extra 2 % for the total course grade).
4. A student who passes a retake within two weeks after the first Gateway Exam will receive 100 points on the exam (i.e., full credit).
5. A student who passes a retake after more than two weeks after the first Gateway Exam will receive 50 points out of 100 on the exam (i.e., half credit).
6. A student who fails to pass the Gateway Exam on all attempts will receive 0 points out of 100 on the exam (i.e., no credit).

Final Exam: The final exam will be from 1:30pm to 4:30pm on Friday, May 14th. It will be a comprehensive examination.